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Time for games to move to linux!

smokinriotsmokinriot Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 1 Arc User
edited March 2015 in Off Topic
Everything to do with linux, please feel free to add comments and feelings about linux and gaming. This post is not for the die hard windows fans who want to ditch linux users. Please do not post if you are going to be Pro-windows...

Ok, for starters, has anyone tried running NWN on linux yet using wine or other emulators. Lets help others by posting our solutions to get it running.

I will be attempting tonight to try run on Wine and post my notes once successful.

Thank you to all of you in advance!
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  • njordinnjordin Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    The game used to run quite well under Wine or in PlayOnLinux (which isn't much more than a good frontend to Wine anyways). The issue today is that PWE removed the Torrent download for the game itself, meaning you can't download it anymore. The installer/patcher direct download does sadly not work. So if you have it or someone else has it and can hand it to you, it's easy-ish to run at 50fps under Wine.

    Hmm, quick Google... here you go, someone published their POL script: http://pastebin.com/RihAd2qz

    Edit: I made it work with the downloaded patcher/installer. What you will need to do, however, is to install IE8 because, sadly, the launcher and patcher need IE :( They, too, hadn't heard of WebKit embeddables, I guess.
  • subject8subject8 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Yep need a native linux client , wouldnt it be great to play nwn on a steambox
  • tornnomartornnomar Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 403 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    I dual boot Arch and Win7. I game on windows and everything else is done in the linux environment. I would have to downgrade Xorg to 1.12 for the catalyst legacy drivers to even work, I would more than likely have to drop from the 3.12 kernel back to the 3.10 LTS kernel, or maybe back as far as 3.6. Not too much of a chore, but I'm unwilling to downgrade anything, not when I have a system that will play Neverwinter without any hassles.
    I do have a few games that do play nicely with the open source drivers, nothing too demanding, but fun none-the-less.
  • wing007wing007 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 2
    edited February 2014
    ...in the process of moving to Ubuntu.
    will replace the win8 along with it's horrid UI, when Ubuntu LTS 14 comes in April.
  • santmuertesantmuerte Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I am currently running this game on linux manjaro. Have had no real troubles with it, except my in-game party chat is always messed up. Resets to defaults, and never stays in good working condition. Anyone else have this problem? Myself, and my guildmates have been using teamspeak3 to compensate, but other people do enjoy the party chat. Any suggestions?
  • vaelynxvaelynx Member Posts: 182 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Running in linux, no significant problems except the occassional crash, and misdisplay of textures as I lowered display quality to not get so much lag (also, the history-editting window seems ****ed up when I wanted to fix something, but like I could swear it worked before - might be another change brought forth by lowering display settings maybe?) (nwm that when creating the character I wrote up the entire history so that worked)

    EDIT: By occassional, I mean once per 3-5 hours.
  • nezraalnezraal Member, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    who cares about a ****ty OS with countless missing drivers and annoying troubleshooting that nobody uses ?
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  • reds351reds351 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 343 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    nezraal wrote: »
    who cares about a ****ty OS with countless missing drivers and annoying troubleshooting that nobody uses ?

    Every single person with a linux based steambox.
  • vaelynxvaelynx Member Posts: 182 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    nezraal wrote: »
    who cares about a ****ty OS with countless missing drivers and annoying troubleshooting that nobody uses ?
    Spot on! it's why I transitioned to Linux a decade ago.
    ;)
  • tamagodzitamagodzi Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    There is always Dual-Boot / virtual machines :>
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